Word: demeans
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...victories or clutch plays. When the athlete errs, it's the sportswriter's responsibility to explain the "what" and "why," to dissect the moment and explain its significance. To do otherwise, to let an important--albeit unpleasant--moment pass without articulating its meaning, would deny the essence and demean the importance of the entire endeavor...
...invite a speaker only to greet him with angry shouts and accusations of bigotry reflects very poorly on Harvard as an institution. The demonstrations will undermine the unity which should be present on a day which is the culmination of four years of academic endeavor. And most importantly, they demean the accomplishments of a man who deserves our highest esteem...
Furthermore, the staff's notion that searching specifically for a Latino professor would "demean" both the professor and all potential Latino applicants is a patronizing diminuition of the very real anger that many feel. Is integration "demeaning?" Harvard's continual failure to diversify its faculty undercuts its ability to offer the wide range of perspectives so vital to academic discourse. A Latino professor at Harvard, wouldn't be a token any more than was the first Black student at Harvard, or the first female professor...
...American Medical Association, while advocating an increase in the supply of primary care physicians, justly opposes such coercive goals. These moves, seemingly motivated by pure apprehension, are made without any thoughtful consideration. They, too, tend to demean a worthy profession...
...staff is right to criticize the members of Eliot House who forced the return of paper cups to the dining hall last week. Many Eliot residents went out of their way to demean the conservation efforts of the dining hall staff and concerned members of the house. The dining services should ignore these students and remove all paper cups, from every house, immediately...